In case you missed this report have a gander and let's discuss this development.
As everyone knows, Venezuela is a member of OPEC and has great relations with the president of Iran, Ahmadenajad. However, Chavez has been seen on television by the populations of the various Middle Eastern countries as a man who is a leader of a new socialist movement. Egypt should take note, as well as Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and of course Iraq, because any country allied with the USA or Israel is now on the wrong side of history.
EDIT
Since some here are unfamiliar with Hugo Chavez, I am editing the diary to include this article about the interview Sean Penn conducted with Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro.
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This from Al Jazeera
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Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in
the Israeli offensive [AFP]
Venezuela has expelled the Israeli ambassador to protest against the country's assault on Gaza, after the Venezuelan president described it as a "holocaust".
The move on Tuesday came hours after 40 Palestinians were killed at a UN school where civilians had taken shelter amid the offensive.
"The Holocaust, that is what is happening right now in Gaza," Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, said in televised comments.
"The president of Israel at this moment should be taken to the International Criminal Court together with the president of the United States."
Chavez seems to have the courage to say what very few leaders in the world have.
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There is a tradition in Latin America of rejecting violence to solve any international conflict," said Adrian Bonilla, the director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Ecuador. "There is also a tradition of supporting the weakest country in a conflict since most Latin American countries have been part of the Third World network. Another factor is that Israel is a close ally of the United States."
This interview of the Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom shows you why Israel has already lost and is not soon to regain any position in the world anytime soon.
What the governments in Israel and the United States are doing is making their people vulnerable. It is time to stand up to the members of our Congress and Senate who refuse to budge on their blind loyalty to Israel It is time to take a stand against any politician in our country who condones what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people. Not to do so is to continue to stand on the wrong side of history and I am so damn tired of my country standing on the wrong side of history.
Viva Hugo Chavez